Menagerie
Aquarium Advice Addict
When things go wrong with my fish tanks--I end up with multiple problems :sigh:
When we came back from getting married, Trevor noticed the black Mollies in the community tank had a fungal or bacterial infection. They did not make it through treatment
We also noticed that the male daktari in the 80 gal Mbuna tank was MIA. That was sad--he had been picked on, we treated him for two weeks, we put him back. There was absolutely no evidence he ever existed Then I bought two large male Mbuna--an aceii and another male daktari. I took out ALL the rock, did a water change, added the fish and put back all the rock in new arrangements. The Aceii was dead in the morning and the daktari wasn't looking so good. We QTed him and he died the next day 
. We realize now that we cannot add any more males to that tank.
Last weekend, I bought three male swordtails for the 50 gal and two have died--they were in QT and I can still get my money back, but this is getting annoying!!!
Last night, we were watching a movie and I look over to see a floater in the Badis tank. I didn't say anything right away, since we had already stopped the movie multiple times. An hour later (after mostly staring at the floater and not paying attention to the movie), I told Trevor to look at the floater and remove it for me. I don't deal well with dead fish. Trevor tells me it was a floating piece of zucchini! Finally, some good news! Then, I am admiring my wild rams and see that the females definitely have ich :x. I turned the heat up a bit and added salt.
Just a few minutes ago, I went to turn up the temp again and realize the tank is at 69F!!!! The HEATER is BROKEN!!! The heater is an Ebo Jager I bought 7 months ago--all the heater coils are at the bottom of the heater! No wonder my fish are ill! I am glad the heater didn't totally malfunction and kill them, but money is tight right now and I'm off to purchase another heater!
I am so angry right now
When we came back from getting married, Trevor noticed the black Mollies in the community tank had a fungal or bacterial infection. They did not make it through treatment
We also noticed that the male daktari in the 80 gal Mbuna tank was MIA. That was sad--he had been picked on, we treated him for two weeks, we put him back. There was absolutely no evidence he ever existed
Then I bought two large male Mbuna--an aceii and another male daktari. I took out ALL the rock, did a water change, added the fish and put back all the rock in new arrangements. The Aceii was dead in the morning and the daktari wasn't looking so good. We QTed him and he died the next day . We realize now that we cannot add any more males to that tank.Last weekend, I bought three male swordtails for the 50 gal and two have died--they were in QT and I can still get my money back, but this is getting annoying!!!
Last night, we were watching a movie and I look over to see a floater in the Badis tank. I didn't say anything right away, since we had already stopped the movie multiple times. An hour later (after mostly staring at the floater and not paying attention to the movie), I told Trevor to look at the floater and remove it for me. I don't deal well with dead fish. Trevor tells me it was a floating piece of zucchini! Finally, some good news! Then, I am admiring my wild rams and see that the females definitely have ich :x. I turned the heat up a bit and added salt.
Just a few minutes ago, I went to turn up the temp again and realize the tank is at 69F!!!! The HEATER is BROKEN!!! The heater is an Ebo Jager I bought 7 months ago--all the heater coils are at the bottom of the heater! No wonder my fish are ill! I am glad the heater didn't totally malfunction and kill them, but money is tight right now and I'm off to purchase another heater!
I am so angry right now
well the only thing I can say is at least this proves you truely are a fish lover or this wouldn't bother and you'd just give up. So hears to you Menagerie 
